WILFORD GRIFFIN
"Endurance is the crowning
quality,
And patience all the passion
of great hearts." THELMA KNELL
"Golden thoughts make
beautiful lives; for every
word and deed lies in the
thought that prompted it."
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WALTER HANSEN
He was in logic a...

A FAVORITE DANCE BAND
One of Beaver's favorite Dance Bands was under the direction of John Grimshaw. Much of their playing was done in the Opera House, when the "Two-step" was the popular dance and the town supported a dance every Friday night....

nary, 1877, and the General Conference of the Church held at that place in April following, the reorganization of the various stakes and wards began. Accordingly, at the Stake Quarterly Conference held in Beaver, July 25-26, a time of spiritual...

EAST WARD BISHOPS
Louis W. Harris, the first bishop of East Ward after the town was divided into two wards, was ordained January 22, 1905, and served until 1908, when his first counselor, George A. Parkinson, became bishop.
George A. Parkinson...

THE MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS OF BEAVER STAKE The earlist available record of the Young Men's Mutual Association of Beaver is dated 1879, showing Solomon A. Wixom as superintendent, with W. H. Bakes, William Ashworth and Frank Clayton as...

Spanish-American War Veterans Indian troubles were over, and the Beaver citizens were a happy, patriotic group. Their first real call to defend their country (since the Mormon Battalion) came in 1898 in the "Spanish-American War." John Frank...